SAILING > YOUTH SAILING COURSES

Start Sailing (Level 1)

An introductory course where you will quickly learn how to sail a dinghy. Learning how to rig and launch a dinghy, which ropes to pull on at the right time, how to steer the boat up and down wind, tacking and gybing - and of course how to avoid collisons - are all taught as a fun and interactive learning experience. By the end of this course you will be sailing in light wind conditions (with assistance from your instructor if necessary)

Basic Skills (Level 2)

This basic skills course enables you to take command of your own boat and apply the five essential rules of sailing that will help you to control your boat better, sail faster and have more fun learning new manoeuvres. Righting a capsized dinghy, picking up a "man overboard" and coming alongside a pontoon are just some of the techniques you will learn on this course.

Improving Skills

Advance your sailing skills during this action packed week ! Feel the thrill of sailing in a range of wind conditions, roll tacking, gybing and learning to sail your boat backwards or without a rudder ! By the end of this course you will have mastered a range of skills to handle your boat competently.

If you've completed your Improving Skills and want to develop your sailing this course will help you to optimise the performance of your dinghy in all wind conditions. Advanced Boat Handling is the foundation course for advanced techniques and provides the necessary skills for anyone wishing to progress onto Kites & Wires and Adventure Sailing Courses. 

Kites & Wires 1

Feel the thrill of hiking out on a trapeze or flying downwind under spinnaker! You will learn how to rig, fly, gybe and trim spinnakers and use a trapeze in a range of wind conditions. Dinghies : RS Feva & Omega.

Adventure Sailing 1

An exciting week developing your skills and knowledge to undertake longer sailing trips - Passage Planning and navigation, predicting tides and anchoring and interpreting the weather forecast are some of the elements you will put to practise on day sails, culminating in an overnight camp. A prerequisite course for future Instructor training.

Kites & Wires 2

This advanced course in spinnaker and trapeze use is suitable for candidates who are at the level of, or have already completed, Kites and Wires 1. A prerequisite course for future instructor training. 
Dinghies : RS Feva & Omega.